Disaster recovery funding and grant funding in general have a great deal in common. You have to have the paperwork to back up what you are doing or have accomplished with the funding.
Here is a story on West Virginia that provides more details on how they are getting more supervision by FEMA on their disaster recovery projects and reimbursements, see
FEMA has taken regular criticism over its grant oversight.
It is a complicated system that we have woven together in the United States.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
